Word: alls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The A.F.L.-C.I.O. was all out for the mildest-yet labor bill, filed by California Democrat John F. Shelley (former president of the California State Federation of Labor). The Shelley bill skips over picketing and boycott abuses, requires financial accounting from unions, and also from management "of expenditures for union...
Facing the President was a Tennessee Valley Authority self-financing bill, approved by both friends and foes of TVA. Friends liked the bill because it authorized TVA to issue up to $750 million in bonds to finance new projects. Foes liked it because it 1) tightly limited TVA's...
¶ The House Judiciary Committee approved (by a reported 17-13 vote) a moderate version of the Administration's civil-rights program that would 1) make it a federal crime to block school desegregation by force or threat of force, 2) require local election officials to preserve for two...
The Good Chute. As the Crusader lost altitude and sank into the clouds, .Rankin put his life in the hands of the ingenious engineers who had sweated for years to anticipate his problem. He pulled two overhead handles to trigger a fast sequence: 1) a canvas windscreen came down over...
"It seemed like I free-fell an eternity. All this time I had this keen desire to pull the ripcord. I had to keep telling myself, 'If you do, you'll slow down and freeze to death or die from lack of oxygen.' Just as I was...